similar to bread and butter. It was consumed as Schweizer Znacht , but not as a breakfast cereal.

It was introduced around 1900 by Bircher-Benner for patients in his hospital, where a diet rich in fresh fruit and vegetables was an essential part of therapy. It was inspired by a similar "strange dish" that he and his wife had been served on a hike in the Swiss Alps.

Bircher-Benner himself referred to the dish simply as d Spys, Swiss German for

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